Seventeen years after losing her council job due to needing endometriosis surgery, Michelle Dewar’s campaign for paid menstrual leave gained 50,000 signatures in a week, reports ELIZABETH SHORT
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You may destroy Trump, but Trumpism is another beast entirely
Whether he is convicted or not, Donald Trump has already cast himself as an anti-establishment martyr, and his followers will make sure his legacy of white supremacy blossoms, writes JOHN WIGHT
Former President Donald Trump arrives to speak at his Mar-a-Lago estate hours after being arraigned in New York City, Tuesday, April 4, 2023, in Palm Beach, Florida
From 35,000 troops in Talisman Sabre war games to HMS Spey provocations in the Taiwan Strait, Labour continues Tory militarisation — all while claiming to uphold ‘one China’ diplomatic agreements from 1972, reports KENNY COYLE
White racist rioting has many an infamous precedent in Britain, writes DAVID HORSLEY
The SNP might dissemble over the meaning of ‘nationalism,’ but it can’t disguise the fact that it is no left-wing party, says ELAINE SMITH
Castro became one of the first leaders to denounce Israeli genocide against Palestinians at the UN, comparing zionist persecution to Nazi crimes while Cuba trained PLO cadres and awarded Arafat state honours, writes PABLO MERIGUET
The summer saw the co-founders of modern communism travelling from Ramsgate to Neuenahr to Scotland in search of good weather, good health and good newspapers in the reading rooms, writes KEITH FLETT
THE news that Donald Trump had been arrested and indicted on 34 counts of falsifying business records by a court in New York over an alleged hush-money payment of $130,000 to former porn performer Stormy Daniels, with whom he is alleged to have had sexual relations in 2006, will have come as manna from heaven for his Democrat opponents in Washington and millions across the US.
It will also, however, stir up a Republican Party which he rules like a king rules his kingdom, along with a Make America Great Again (Maga) base across the country in equal measure, to thus confirm that the land of the free has never been more polarised with no sign, none whatsoever, of the mutual animus dissipating anytime soon.
With Trump having also been subpoenaed to appear in front of the congressional committee hearing into the Capitol riot of January 6 2021 — and with the former president also currently facing multiple lawsuits and other legal probes into his real estate and business dealings in New York — and also the retention of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago beachside mansion in Florida — many are predicting that his demise is finally at hand.
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